This is specifically related to questions about coding problems. When reviewing a question without a single line of code provided, I mark this as 'Unsalvageable' -> Should be closed -> off-topic -> ...

I am looking for a technical term related to programming.
I thought I read once that word and I can not remember, but I am not sure that there really is a expression for that.
Can I ask this kind of ...

This question: Are there real world uses of sun.misc.Unsafe? has recently seen a flood of close/reopen/undelete etc votes (it was posted in a blog post and social media) and now it seems like we're in ...

We have come up with a new business idea (new for us at least) within our recruitment firm.
Target audience: People with software development skills who are speciliased in languages that are becoming ...

I came across this pronunciation question in the HNQ list and was surprised that the question appears to be on topic on electronics.SE since it wasn't closed and has upvotes.
I then searched SO for ...

I've noticed a number of instances where a user will ask a question regarding PHP and MySQL using the deprecated mysql_ functions, and there will almost always be at least one other user who feels the ...

If you have developed in AngularJS, you might know that there are some features that are somewhat 'sparsely documented' so to speak. I have searched google for about 30 minutes, and i'm not finding ...

A question of mine from three years ago asking for guidance on using the Google license validation API was just closed for being "not about programming". I was asking about the behavior of Google's ...

I had a question related to licensing closed/deleted by Community, but it has practical applicability to programming. The question cited a specific Microsoft library with specific applicability to a ...

I have had a question for quite some time now, but have been reluctant to ask as I understand it would be borderline off-topic, and hence I have yet to ask it.
I drafted the question here, which was ...

I have a question about an approach used in one of open-source APIs. Namely, an old version significantly differs in approach to the new version, and I don't see any reasoning behind the change. Where ...

Many times I am programming something and wondering if what I'm doing is or not a good practice (it doesn't mean that I'm asking for code reviews as some people say, in fact I don't include code).
So ...

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The [r] tag gets a lot of questions of the form "is there a package to do XXX in R?" (for example, this recent question) - possibly because R is a DSL ...

A slightly strange situation. This post asks a perfectly legitimate question about doing something in Matlab. In this other post someone asks basically for the same thing.
It would make sense to mark ...

Recently, I reviewed this question in Triage. It was a test designed to check whether I paid attention, so nothing bad happen. However, I marked the question as off-topic, because it clearly asks for ...

Every day people stumble in here, either drunk or oblivious or maliciously, and drop off-topic questions. Like clockwork, before their question is closed and deleted, one or more well-meaning folks ...